Feature: Rule Dependency Graph Visualization #699
Description
Feature: Rule Dependency Graphs (Visualization)
Objective:
Implement a feature that visualizes rule dependency graphs in the RulesEngine administration portal and/or API. This will help users understand how rules and workflows interconnect, making it easier to debug, optimize, and maintain complex rule sets.
Requirements:
- Analyze and extract rule dependencies from workflow definitions (e.g., rules referencing outputs of other rules).
- Generate a directed graph model representing these dependencies.
- Provide a backend API endpoint to retrieve dependency graphs for a given workflow version (e.g., as a JSON structure compatible with common graph libraries such as Cytoscape.js, D3.js, or Mermaid).
- (Frontend) Integrate a visualization component (e.g., D3.js, Cytoscape.js, or Mermaid) that consumes the backend graph and displays it interactively.
- Highlight potential issues: cycles, unreachable rules, or orphan rules.
- Optionally: Allow users to navigate from the graph to rule definitions for quick editing.
Acceptance Criteria:
- Backend exposes a dependency graph API for each workflow version.
- Admin UI displays the graph for any workflow.
- Cycles, orphans, and unreachable nodes are visually distinguished.
- Documentation updated for this feature.
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